Daily Answers

9-across – Girl band from town down under : ALICE

10-across – Effort finally revealed name of top solver on TV : ENDEAVOUR

11-across – Eccentric that appears in strange dream : MADHATTER

12-across – Like black stone in pier : JETTY

13-across – Not this piece for piano, therefore : ANOTHER

15-across – Girl turned in fees for foreign governesses : DUENNAS

17-across – Dancing line seen in South America repeatedly : SALSA

18-across – 6, 13 down, 23, 29 8, or 30 that’s repeatedly found in dance : CHA

20-across – Put into ground, using section of main terrace : INTER

22-across – Hormone change can make one rail : MOORHEN

25-across – How gas gets mixed with hydrogen? Rubbish! : HOGWASH

26-across – See 16 : PALIN

27-across – Move quickly to follow protest, as member of 21 : MARCHHARE

30-across – Explosive editor held back by grown-up when drunk : GUNPOWDER

31-across – Appraiser backed raise over time : RATER

1-down – Friendly, minutes after fighting : WARM

2-down – Reported playmaker over breach of rules, we hear, in some game : WILDFOWL

3-down – Cheese that’s fine with tea, oddly : FETA

4-down – Modern erection badly constructed : NEOTERIC

5-down – Revered a party on the far left : ADORED

6-down – Military vehicle endlessly seen in adorable Indian town : DARJEELING

7-down – Scene of historic 21 and game of cards : BOSTON

8-down – Poet’s pronouncement is dismal : GREY

13-down – A state in East briefly upset another state in East : ASSAM

14-down – Capital mostly invested in male dominion, in which people don’t have faith : HEATHENDOM

16-down – A rash plan I crazily formulated, as leader of 21 : SARAH

19-down – A doctor’s carrying present for those who follow : ADHERERS

21-down – Anti-government group still rising, securing a role : TEAPARTY

23-down – Export from China needing to be cut, top-sliced : OOLONG

24-down – People who are unsettled and crazy in limited numbers : NOMADS

26-down – Young male worker’s mature under pressure : PAGE

28-down – Tea-maker possibly used by Father Brown : HERB

29-down – Disraeli, for example, showing ability to listen to Liberal : EARL

9-across – In Rome half a dozen beg for it : SEXAPPEAL

10-across – Who in France blocked old record supply? : EQUIP

11-across – This country drops euro? It never had it : UKRAINE

12-across – Tense French pal cuts his tipple with retinol, say : VITAMIN

13-across – Going grey, coping without husband : AGING

14-across – In the raw, French cut their tipple with it, they say : AUNATUREL

16-across – Roasting cola nut cracked – it’s very well done : CONGRATULATIONS

19-across – Nazi police arrested French poet after tip off, firing these? : SMALLARMS

21-across – Access to broadcast fight preliminaries : WAYIN

22-across – A radio-telephony code’s broken, 1930s-style : ARTDECO

23-across – In neural network, variable gap going over between two points : SYNAPSE

24-across – A short distance during, say, round? : GIMME

25-across – Exotic woman’s probing survey taking in hotel : RECHERCHE

1-down – Promises dashed in University College, fools around : ASSURANCES

2-down – Putting effort into somehow shoring up two rivers : EXERTION

3-down – Time bound : SPRING

4-down – Information on everyone’s origin : GENE

5-down – Test the foreign fizzy Seven Up left in : ELEVENPLUS

6-down – Jacques remained outside and persevered : KEPTATIT

7-down – Time when adder appears? : SUMMER

8-down – Clear The Duck & Swan : OPEN

14-down – Illicit drinking time that did for our fathers? : AFTERHOURS

15-down – Financial backer doesn’t win without City : LOSANGELES

17-down – No longer worried about woman wearing hat : RELIEVED

18-down – Is Coe simply wasting energy foolishly on them? : OLYMPICS

20-down – Time to erect new joint nearly : AUTUMN

21-down – Water’s taken in for a time : WINTER

22-down – Seafood’s special gastronomic ingredient : ALGA

23-down – Fire fighter in 11 company’s discharged : SACK

1-across – Kitty takes fish to cauldron : JACKPOT

5-across – Maoist leader’s penetration of moderate after revolution is a process of assimilation : OSMOSIS

9-across – Council for a fitter dog : CORGI

10-across – Motto of the un-14 16 team? Whatever rocks your boat! : DIFFERENT

11-across – See 10 : STROKESFOR

12-across – Composition requiring oxygen and bodily fluid? : OPUS

14-across – Drenching my own missis, ridiculous sport : SYNCHRONISED

18-across – Beds draw cat needing a snooze, beginning to drop off : WHIPSNADEZOO

21-across – Laugh at dummy : MOCK

22-across – Latest milk tooth, perhaps, was in front : NEWFANGLED

25-across – This setter’s limited, to be fair : IMPARTIAL

26-across – Dramatic steps taken to get Brown to step down? : TANGO

27-across – Bomb, say, catching European king from behind : GRENADE

28-across – Enormous bottom on cute figure? Sugar! : SWEETEN

1-down – Jolly ordinary chap circumnavigating island : JOCOSE

2-down – Something reddish-brown, very red poison : CURARE

3-down – Unpleasant person, unknown, hiding in birch tree : PRICKLYASH

4-down – Ins and outs, as advertised itinerary’s held up : TIDES

5-down – In need of guidance certainly, having secured very poor grade : OFFCOURSE

6-down – Find flesh by the ear : MEET

7-down – Dolly so red-faced? : SHEEPISH

8-down – Reserve team inferior to East Ham : SETASIDE

13-down – Girl clutching to individual, Marie : ANTOINETTE

15-down – This, as fierce battle’s ending, perhaps? : CEASEFIRE

16-down – See 14 : SWIMMING

17-down – Seasonal fare in the East London Observer? : MINCEPIE

19-down – Earth, say, provides energy to feed bush, perhaps : PLANET

20-down – Couple with a jacket on, I gathered : ADJOIN

23-down – See 10 : FOLKS

24-down – A song turning up — here? : ARIA

1-across – Tudor’s defeat by Gloucester? : STROUD

5-across – Cryptographer keeps caliph to say what’s right : MORALISE

9-across – Lawbreaker in the beginning becomes stout fellow : STALWART

10-across – 25 22’s sheep have room : JACOBS

11-across – See 23 : TERN

12-across – Female poet holds small boy back from ground elder : HERBGERARD

13-across – Medicine from tree manufactured in small limousine : NIMOIL

14-across – 25 22’s married woman gets permit in time : DALLOWAY

16-across – 25 22’s time to cut birds : THEWAVES

19-across – Boy that’s scruffy and prickly : URCHIN

21-across – Thora’s pupil in promise to be developed : THIRDWORLD

23-across – Wood strip makes bird a slut : SLAT

24-across – DJ produces poem with tenth note reversed : TUXEDO

25-across – State what beast sounds like whose fearfulness has been questioned : VIRGINIA

26-across – Ringer to turn into mad fly — I can’t take any more! : BELLYFUL

27-across – In the course of … of the French and German cycle : DURING

2-down – 25 22’s child pupil in stature to accommodate : TOTHELIGHTHOUSE

3-down – 25 22’s golden country with love : ORLANDO

4-down – Ballet master, fat in face, taking two fifths : DIAGHILEV

5-down – Crazy about true reform that’s now ready : MATURED

6-down – Change concerned with dance : REJIG

7-down – See what should be on plate by agreement : LOCARNO

8-down – See what’s making the countryside rot in a bus twice : SUBURBANISATION

15-down – As corollary, journalist over American city dealt with clothes or money : LAUNDERED

17-down – Frank batsman in misery about rights and lefts : WORRELL

18-down – Reduce silver work with hydrogen injection : SHRIVEL

20-down – Decommission the person with the money : CASHIER

22-down – See 25 : WOOLF

1-across – Game flirt getting run in : CROQUET

5-across – Youngster in form : LEVERET

9-across – Upright individual’s state : ONEND

10-across – Bore outside local missing first drink : CUBALIBRE

11-across – Time up for mountaineer disheartened by call : HILARYTERM

12-across – Mollusc left in river : CLAM

14-across – Girl to get money abroad as member of volunteer force : TERRITORIAL

18-across – Capital station no longer in boulevard regarded by Paul? : BROADSTREET

21-across – Bill or Mark : NOTE

22-across – Police car originally used by Frost taking first of suspects to court : CRIMESQUAD

25-across – Stripper often laid off : DEFOLIANT

26-across – Insufficient fruit for ape : ORANG

27-across – Was 21 different? Don’t worry about it! : NOSWEAT

28-across – Tories put out after Liberal leader waits around : LOITERS

1-down – Dumbo? He needed dress : CLOTHE

2-down – Enclosure not right in airport for all to see : OPENLY

3-down – Risk exam failure as reserve player? : UNDERSTUDY

4-down – Historian no American understood : TACIT

5-down – Rake it in with rebel in a state : LIBERTINE

6-down – … that’s extremely loathsome and obnoxious : VILE

7-down – Writer presenting murder victim in lift? Not quite : RABELAIS

8-down – Rosencrantz initially wearing Hamlet’s shabby underwear : THERMALS

13-down – Rome isn’t so chaotic for a methodical Italian : MONTESSORI

15-down – Socialist Worker admitting sailor is slowing down : RETARDANT

16-down – A great fellow entertaining any number in Oxfordshire : ABINGDON

17-down – Top churchmen beginning to preach about differences : PONTIFFS

19-down – Box outside youth centre for clergyman : CURATE

20-down – Female goes out with Oscar to see saws : ADAGES

23-down – Lead, say, for Bond’s boss and others : METAL

24-down – Runner required by Spielberg : ELBE